BRITISH OKXITHOLOGISTS' UMOX. 59^ 



1904. 



Ill 1904 the Aimual General Meetiug of the B. O. U. was 

 held at 3 Hanover Square, on the 11th of May, F. DuCane 

 Godman, President, in the Chair. The accounts for the year 

 1903, which had been audited by Mr. Dresser and shewed 

 a balance of £36 carried over to 1904, were examined 

 and passed. The Report of the Committee Avas read and 

 adopted. It pointed out with satisfaction that no outstandiug 

 accounts had been left unpaid at the end of the past year. 

 Thirty-one gentlemen were then ballotted for and elected 

 Ordinary Members of the Union, and Mr. A. J. Campbell^ 

 of Melbourne, was elected a Colonial Member, while 

 Dr. W. Blasius, of Brunswick, was elected a Foreign 

 ]M ember. The Annual Dinner subsequently held at 

 the Trocadero Restaurant was attended by twenty-four 

 Members and one guest. 



The volume of 'The Ibis' for 1904, being the fourth 

 volume of the Eighth Series and the forty-sixth of the 

 Avhole work, contained 701 pages, illustrated by 12 plates, 

 mostly the work of Keulemans, Goodchikl, and Grilnvold. 

 Amongst other papers of interest in this volume will be 

 found an account of Mr. W. Eagle Clarke's Results of 

 Observations on Migration made on l^oard the Kentish 

 Knock Lightship in the Autumn of 1903, and Dr. Hartert's 

 account of the Birds collected by Mr. Robert Hall, of Mel- 

 bourne, on the Lena River in North-eastern Siberia. 



1905. 



The Annual General Meeting of the B. 0. U. in 1905 was 

 held on the 24th of May at 3 Hanover Square. In the 

 absence of the President^ who was abroad, the Chair was 

 taken by P. L. Sclater. The Report of the Committee 

 announced the continued prosperity of the Union during the 

 past year. The Balance Sheet to December the 31st, which 

 liad been examined and found correct by Mr. H> F. ^Vitherby, 

 shewed that after payment of all liabilities a balance of £98 



